• Two columns of text that were part of a news feature (Special report Syria refugees, 25 July, page 19) were transposed because of a production error. The effect was that the second and third columns in the newspaper were reversed. The sentence "In Lebanon, the numbers are no less dramatic" should have been at the head of the second column rather than the third as it appeared.

• It should have been bacterium rather than bacteria in an editorial about a possible meningitis vaccine (Moral maze, 25 July, page 30). Sadly, the error is not singular.

• The writer of a letter about the NHS wrote in error that 216 MPs signed an early day motion in support of the NHS. In fact five MPs support the EDM (A measure of MPs' support for NHS, 23 July, page 33).

• The clue for 21 across in Quick crossword no 13,481 should have been "Swiss cheese" rather than "Swiss holes surrounded by cheese".

• Gatwick should be on shortlist was amended because we elevated Sir Howard Davies to the peerage when we referred to his role as chair of the Airports Commission in an article about possible expansion at Gatwick.